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cially at the time of flowering the appearance of single peltate 
ovules attached by their inner surface, but under a stronger 
glass, especially as the fruit advances towards maturity, 
these fleshy placente are covered with small oblong pendu- 
lous seeds more or less imbedded in pulp as in Gardenia, 
Randia and other allied genera. I have not however seen 
them quite ripe, so as to examine their internal structure. 
De Candolle refers moreover to Myrmecodia inermis, Gaud. 
the M. tuberosa, Jack, whose description differs from the 
plant before me in several points. The genus Lasiostoma 
now established would belong to the Gardenia. I have 
adopted for it a name originally substituted by Schreber to 
Aublet’s Rouhamon now united to Strychnos and extended by 
Sprengel to include Myrmecodia, but now unoccupied. 
Lasiostoma oblonga, sp, n. foliis ovali-oblongis obtusis. 
The leaves are scarcely more than half the breadth of those 
of the preceding species, the bark of the branches smoother, 
and the flowers smaller but precisely the same in structure. 
New Ireland, Mr. Barclay. 
Timonius Forsteri, DC. Burneya Forsteri, Cham. Schlecht. 
Amboyna, Mr. Barclay. 
Ixore sp. not distinguishable by the single specimen 
before me, from I. Timoriensis, Decaisne. Amboyna, Mr. 
Barclay. a 
Vernonia cinerea, Less. var. angustifolia. Tanna, Mr. 
Barclay. ees eo ae 
Wollastonia strigulosa, DC. Tanna, Mr. Berg. - — — 
Wollastonia insulis, DC? Fegiee Islands, Mr. Barclay. 
.. The leaflets of the involucre are remarkably obtuse, in other 
.. TeSpects it agrees precisely with De Candolle’s character. 
JEgiceras fragrans, Kin. Tobie Island, Mr. Bar clay. 
Myrsine sp. in fruit only. Amboyna, Mr. Barclay. ~~ 
Olea floribunda, sp. n., glaberrima, foliis longiuscule petio- 
i oblongo-ellipticis obtuse acuminatis basi angustatis 
Subundulatis nitidis, paniculis axillaribus laxe ramosissimis, 
floribus parvis, calyce profunde 4-fido, corolla fere ad basin 
— *- partita, laciniis erecto-patentibus concavis. Folia omnino 
